The Years Ahead

We talked about growing older You made sixty sound so soon Said we'd finally have the mornings When the hardest work was done I kept putting off the details You were happy making plans I can hear the way you said it We've got longer than we've had All the years ahead of me I had you in every one There's so much still left to happen I don't want to see it come I'd have grown old with you You were the part I thought I knew I took two days off in August Then I went right back to work Everybody seemed relieved when I could manage a few words Someone asked about all her I said It's too soon to say For a while I thought I'd make it Through any ordinary day All the years ahead of me I had you in every one There's so much still left to happen I don't want to see it alone I'd have grown old with you You were the part I thought I knew Don't tell me I am lucky For the time we got to have I am frightened of the next part That's as much as I have planned All the years ahead of me I had you in every one There's so much still left to happen I have to face it alone I'd have grown old with you You were the part I thought I knew Life takes what it wants That's as much as I have planned